[slim] FLAC DeCompression
Hello I am not shure if FLAC decompression is done on the server or in sb? If it would be on the server do I need a powerfull cpu? christian -- Schindler Schindler's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8461 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35911 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Does slimserver need to be some complicated?
I disagree. I see it as very much a UI problem. I realize many of the preferences interface issues are being addressed for SlimServer 7, so it's obvious that SD is aware of many of them. Hmm... I haven't seen big improvements in the settings' UI. But there are plans. Number one, the nearly complete lack of help. Poor or lacking descriptions for nearly all settings. I'd rather say some of the settings are too technical, thus even the description available won't help everybody understand it. Maybe this is driven by the insistence on translations for nearly every word in the web UI. Surely You'll understand that I have to answer back here :-). someone is going to be reluctant to add or change a description for a simple option when it needs to be retranslated into Hebrew and a dozen other languages. As a long time maintainer of the German translation I can assure you that strings were changed as freely as needed. Policy is to remove the translation if there is a change. In the SD times all translation was done by volunteers - a change didn't cost the developer anything. Some of the translations therefore are incomplete. Logitech decided to have the main languages translated by professionals. That's been done only a few weeks ago (for the 6.5.2 release). Thus the claim about folks being reluctant to change descriptions is rather farfetched. I'd rather blame it to the lack of volunteers willing to improve them. And technicians usually aren't known for liking to document :-). Hide some of the 'advanced' options where they won't confuse people, but where they can be gotten to. That was the idea of the Basic settings page. But I do agree that we'd have to re-define what the basic settings are, probably re-grouping them. Increase the sophistication and usability of the web options forms. For example, selecting one setting might enable another selection, changing another setting hides yet another or even a group of settings. Group things a little more logically. Agreed. I've been playing with that way of uncluttering the UI. But there aren't any results yet. Oh, and choose some better default settings (Players set to REPEAT by default. Huh?). You can't please everyone. Many would ask for it if it was removed. -- Michael - http://www.herger.net/SlimCD - your SlimServer on a CD http://www.herger.net/slim - AlbumReview, Biography, MusicInfoSCR ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] FLAC DeCompression
The Squeezebox 2 and Squeezebox 3 natively support FLAC in the players themselves. -- rudholm rudholm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2980 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35911 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] FLAC DeCompression
FLAC decompression is very light weight. any CPU that can run SlimServer can decompress FLAC on the fly. -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35911 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Does slimserver need to be some complicated?
Whilst I personally love tinkering with things like SlimServer, I do see the point. No offense to all great contributors to the project (in fact: a round of applause!), but in these types of projects things tend to get designed from a technical perspective. It is the nature of an open project. If SlimServer itself was a commercial, closed source package, I am sure it would all look different. You would not have as many choices in configuration, and plugins would not be as widespread as they are now. My advice to you is: install SlimServer as stock standard. works like a charm. If you want more options, than that is going to complicate things... your choice (I for one, am glad to have that choice). To the SS team: a rethink of the default layout: all complicated but optional settings in an advanced mode. Experienced users can always revert back to their favourite skin... Perhaps with Logitech involved, we will see those changes in the UI of SS with version 7... A very happy Squeezebox user... -- matthijskoopmans matthijskoopmans's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35906 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Last, Best Hope for getting SlimServer to work??
oreillymj;207219 Wrote: BTW - This thread mentions WMP11 using port 9000, but I cannot find a mention of this in the help file or in the list of ports that the Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service adds to the Windows firewall rules. By default Windows Media Player 11 does not use port 9000. I am using it at the moment with Vista. But other users have discovered this problem in the past therefore I suspect it is a plugin or option that causes this. You can check this by setting Server Settings - Network - Web Server Port Number to 9001 then use the URL http://127.0.0.1:9001/ to view. -- MrStan MrStan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1771 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35875 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Does slimserver need to be some complicated?
My advice to you is: install SlimServer as stock standard. works like a charm. If you want more options, than that is going to complicate things... your choice (I for one, am glad to have that choice). We hope to get plugin installation much easier (automatically through the web interface) with SlimServer 7. That's one of the big targets for that new release. To the SS team: a rethink of the default layout: all complicated but optional settings in an advanced mode. Experienced users can always revert back to their favourite skin... Good idea! -- Michael - http://www.herger.net/SlimCD - your SlimServer on a CD http://www.herger.net/slim - AlbumReview, Biography, MusicInfoSCR ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Last, Best Hope for getting SlimServer to work??
MrStan;207272 Wrote: By default Windows Media Player 11 does not use port 9000. I am using it at the moment with Vista. But other users have discovered this problem in the past therefore I suspect it is a plugin or option that causes this. You can check this by setting Server Settings - Network - Web Server Port Number to 9001 then use the URL http://127.0.0.1:9001/ to view. If the server isn't starting up, he won't be able to set that on the Server Settings Network page. :-) It would have to be done by editing slimserver.pref in the server folder. Open the file using Wordpad and search for the 9000 and change it. Then try starting up SlimServer again from the Windows Services applet (Start Settings Control Panel Administrative Tools Services, then look for SlimServer). BTW, going to the services applet would be another way to check if the SlimServer service is currently running. If it is, then the Status will show as 'Started'. Probably just easier using bpa's suggestion of trying to start SlimServer from the command-line using the --httpport 9001 option. Once it's running on that port and the web interface is accessible, then the port could be changed permanently to 9001 using the Server Settings Network page. Don't forget that if you run on port 9001 that you'll also have to open this port in any firewalls that are running on the same machine. Until things are going, though, I'd disable any firewalls. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35875 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Transporter not playing...
I am suspecting there could be a problem when the Transporter upgrade its firmware. During upgrading, it came to a point that it said it will reboot and it shut itself without wakig up. I have to press the power button to turn it back on but it seems working fine except playing. Could that be a problem? Can I force the Transporter to reload the firmware again? -- ccjj ccjj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10331 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35907 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Album Artist Browsing - PLEASE
JJZolx;207258 Wrote: So, technically, maybe there's no reason to expect the suppression of these track-only artists from the Artist browse list. I agree. Using the checkbox to include Band/Orchestra does what it says - shows the band or orchestra in the list of artist. It doesn't state anywhere that it will STOP using the Artist tag when the AlbumArtist or Band/Orchestra tag is present. In the Compilations settings you do have the option to List Albums By Band but since this is in the Compilations settings it will not affect non-compilations. So it's not a bug but just a the lack of a feature that seems to be needed. I have only been using Slimserver for a few days but I want to add this as a request at bugs.slimdevices.com - can anyone see a flaw in my logic or think that i shouldn't add a request for some reason before I do so? Thanks -- elziko elziko's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35854 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Album Artist Browsing - PLEASE
elziko;207278 Wrote: I have only been using Slimserver for a few days but I want to add this as a request at bugs.slimdevices.com - can anyone see a flaw in my logic or think that i shouldn't add a request for some reason before I do so? I've already filed it - as a bug, but it could easily be changed to an enhancement request. Please add any comments you like and _vote_ for it if you'd like to see it addressed. http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5108 -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35854 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox
The dodgy power connector is interesting. I am in the UK and had an SB3 (Logitech branded) delivered on Monday. The unit was faulty - there was no splash screen on powering up. While investigating the problem I noticed that the red light behind the optical connector was on (so there was some power getting to the unit), but -occasionally it was going off for a few seconds- until I waggled the power connector a little. I got the impression that the power connector was a little cheap and flimsy. I had a replacement SB3 delivered yesterday. This works fine, and I'm really pleased with it. I haven't looked at the red light to see if it's periodically going off, but I guess it isn't. Rob -- robt robt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11617 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35899 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Does slimserver need to be some complicated?
One day we will buy our music online in our desired format/bit rate with album art, artist info, lyrics, etc. It will come with industry standard tags and be stored in the music library on our home media server. We will be able to pick up our Internet Tablet and browse through our music to play any song, wherever we have set up our media receivers. We will also be able to synchronise our music library with any portable music player (a process which will automatically compress the music to fit on the player). This portable player will be able to slot into my car stereo. All of this would be Plug n Play. For now it is going to be a bit of a ball ache. -- RobHall Rob Hall Hi-Wi Wireless Music Installations www.hi-wi.co.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] RobHall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10853 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35906 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Why aren't there more skins?
I too would like to see more skin development. We need more bklaas. Maybe Logitech can get some more web interface development going? -- RobHall Rob Hall Hi-Wi Wireless Music Installations www.hi-wi.co.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] RobHall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10853 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35894 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Why aren't there more skins?
Imagine somebody combined the excellent extjs.com toolkit and SlimServer's new JSON/RPC interface and came up with something like that... +---+ |Filename: browse.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2936| +---+ -- mherger Michael - http://www.herger.net/SlimCD - your SlimServer on a CD http://www.herger.net/slim - AlbumReview, Biography, MusicInfoSCR mherger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=50 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35894 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Is AAC support broken after OSX 10.4.9 upgrade?
Eric Seaberg;207188 Wrote: Try re-installing QuickTime. There have been issues with Pro DAWs (ProTools, AVID) where you had to do this. It should solve the problem, especially since SS makes calls to QuickTime to do the transcoding. I had tried that before and I just tried it again now. Made no difference. I'm glad it worked for someone though. Thanks for thinking about it. -- LewisT LewisT's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10065 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33654 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Last, Best Hope for getting SlimServer to work??
Shep wrote: Thanks for the reply. I research how to reinstall XP as a last resort if it comes to that. I'd like to get SS to work on this laptop it would be pretty much dedicated to SS / SB activity along with the external hard drive with all my music. I'll be the first to say it, I guess: It might be easier to download the slimCD and toss it in this laptop. It certainly won't have the problem you're having and it's pretty bulletproof. Or you can just load Ubuntu/Fedora/whatever on your machine :-) -- Chip Hart - Pediatric Solutions * Physician's Computer Company chip @ pcc.com * 1 Main St. #7, Winooski, VT 05404 800-722-7708 * http://www.pcc.com/~chip f.802-846-8178 * Pediatric Software Just Got Smarter. Your Practice Just Got Healthier. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox
I had my Logitech SB3 delivered yesterday and I think I have the same power cord problem. I will investigate tonight to find out whether its the power supply or the main unit. What's the best thing to do about returns that will leave me without my SB3 for the least amount of time? Can I do it direct with Slim Devices or should I do it though my supplier who was: http://www.themp3company.co.uk/ Thanks -- elziko elziko's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35899 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Is AAC support broken after OSX 10.4.9 upgrade?
I also tried re-installing quicktime and itunes with no success. I am back to all AAC not working - just loud hiss/static. Interestingly I get the same problem running slimserver (6.5.2/1) on different machines. My Mac Mini and my Dual G5 box. Help other mac users. Are others seeing this. Joe -- joebarrett joebarrett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11882 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33654 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Hidden albums
I think you are probably right that it's a tag issue. My tags - album, artist, composer, seem pretty clean but there could be others I don't know about. I am about to make a list of the missing albums and see if they have something in common. I'll report later. -- richey richey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10836 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35901 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Hidden albums
It's almost certainly unwanted tags that, if you're anything like me, you didn't even know were there! What type of audio files are your using? I had the same problem on my 10,000 (as it was then) mp3s. 1 Backup your files before you start, just in case 2 Download mp3tag. Read the help files, or the wiki on here. Open all of the files, open extended tags and remove any you don't want - I just kept title, album, artist, composer, year, genre, track, length That should sort out any tagging issues -- moley6knipe moley6knipe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10014 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35901 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox
Go through your supplier. ripcaster.co.uk were brilliant with me. I rang them up and described the problem, and they sent me a new one the same day. -- robt robt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11617 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35899 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Transporter not playing...
Are you connected via wireless? If so, try connecting the Transporter to your router via Ethernet and see if it plays (make sure to change the network configuration to Wired). If it plays fine that way, see if there's a firmware upgrade for your wireless router. -- PhilNYC Sonic Spirits Inc. http://www.sonicspirits.com PhilNYC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=837 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35907 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Does slimserver need to be some complicated?
I'm of the opinion that the developers are too nice and too willing to bend to every user demand. Look at the current brouhaha over compilation albums. What was working for most suddenly is completely unworkable for some. There are vocal demands for can't we choose to have it this way rather than that way? This is how one of those arcane options gets created... The opposite end of the spectrum is iTunes. But rather than earn the scorn of its users, it's lauded as the best thing since...well, the best thing ever. Goes to show you, people really do want to be led and people really do want to be told what's best for them. Perhaps all these advanced options could be hidden behind an Advanced button? -- Mark Lanctot 'Sean Adams' Response-O-Matic checklist, patent pending!' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=200910postcount=2) Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35906 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Playlist not available
I've had this happen before. I found in my case that there were entries in the playlist that either I moved or deleted. I manually corrected the playlist, but others have mentioned using Music Monkey to find the problems. HTH, SS -- Secret Squirrel Secret Squirrel's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4984 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35900 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Last, Best Hope for getting SlimServer to work??
Just wanted to offer my thanks appreciation for the many suggestions so far. Give me a little time to understand and implement your suggestions and I'll get back w/the results. Maybe there's hope for getting SlimServer up running again. -- Shep Shep's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11857 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35875 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Flagging favorites via web interface
Is anyone aware of a plugin that will allow you to add a song to the Favortes playlist via the web interface? Or, is there any way to redirect the Save to Favorites feature within the device to save to a custom playlist? -- kbindera kbindera's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11654 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35915 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] dead remote - options?
my remote has decided to stay locked on volume up setting. I've had it apart and it's not the button itself but something electronic gone belly up I've emailed SD but they want me to buy a new one and the cost plus postage to the UK is $45. Any other options? Do SD not have a UK distributor (which seems very odd to me if they don't) Can I use any other remote? -- maddog 2 maddog 2's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2971 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35916 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Last, Best Hope for getting SlimServer to work??
oreillymj;207217 Wrote: The time zone entry is fine. It's more informational than a warning. Slimserver works just fine without it. So it appears you don't have Slim.exe running, but when run from the command prompt it detects a previously rnning instance. Very weird. Try opening a command window. Start-Run-cmd Cd C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server Type slim.exe -remove slim.exe -install Then run slim.exe, see if it stay's running. Thanks,not sure this is what u wanted but here's what I got. Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\OwnerCd C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server C:\Program Files\SlimServer\serverslim.exe -remove SlimServer removed. C:\Program Files\SlimServer\serverslim.exe -install slimsvc installed as SlimServer. C:\Program Files\SlimServer\serverrun slim.exe 'run' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. C:\Program Files\SlimServer\serverslim.exe 2007-06-07 10:16:32.9598 ERROR: There is already another copy of the SlimServer running on this machine. (Unknown error) C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server -- Shep Shep's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11857 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35875 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Last, Best Hope for getting SlimServer to work??
oreillymj;207219 Wrote: BTW - This thread mentions WMP11 using port 9000, but I cannot find a mention of this in the help file or in the list of ports that the Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service adds to the Windows firewall rules. However I have found that Twonkyviosion uses port 9000 if free. From the Twonky FAQ FAQ Network Config The server ports The ports used by the server are: UDP 1030, 1900, 9080 TCP starting at 9000 until a free port is found. To rule out WMP, go to Start-Run -Services.msc Scroll down the list to Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service and double click on it. If started, click stop and set the Startup type to Manual, then click Ok. Are you running Twonky? I have Win Media Player 10.0 installed. I am not running Twonky. After adjusting the settings for WMP in Services.msc as suggested I tried starting SlimServer from Services.msc without success. Got the error message that says in effect 'SlimServer stared then stopped...this happens when there's not work to do'. This has been the case since SS originally falied. -- Shep Shep's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11857 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35875 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Album Artist Browsing - PLEASE
One thing I did not specify in my directions post was that I was using Slimserver exclusively with MP3 files at the moment. So while the behavior described (listing by ALBUMARTIST if present) is working, I don't know for certain that it will work the same way for FLAC. This tagging and setting method turns out to be the cleanest and most straight forward to getting albums listed in the same order in both Slimserver and iTunes. Case in point: Groove Armada's The Dirty House Sessions. For all intents and purposes, it is a compilation album, where all except two tracks are from different artists (those two are by Groove Armada themselves). Lately I have been doing all tagging in iTunes and have cleared the COMPILATION tag and set ALBUMARTIST to Groove Armada This will list the album as being by Groove Armada in both iTunes and Slimserver. Slimserver will not list the individual artists when browsing by artist. IMO, this is the correct behavior and doesn't need a setting. If you set ALBUMARTIST it should override the track artist for the display and sorting of the album unit, while showing the track artist when looking at the individual track. There's not much point to that tag if this weren't the case. If I set the compilation tag, iTunes will list the album under Various Artists regardless of the ALBUMARTIST setting. Now, iTunes has a bug in it that requires an additional tagging step that has only been possible since 7.1. With the ALBUMARTIST tagged for every track, the album will still not sort under that artist in iTunes. Instead it gets sorted according to the name of the artist for the first track. To fix this you have to change the TSOP (ARTISTSORT) for the first track (or all tracks) to be the same as ALBUMARTIST - Groove Armada in my example. This may very well have broken in a recent nightly. I was having all kinds of scanner issues with the nightlies last month so I reverted to an older version from February. I will probably update sometime this week and manually clean out all caches for a complete rescan to see what's what. -- MelonMonkey Bruno *'Twisted Melon - Fine Mac OS Software' (http://twistedmelon.com) | 'mira - Personal Control for your Apple Remote' (http://twistedmelon.com)* MelonMonkey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8466 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35854 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Last, Best Hope for getting SlimServer to work??
bpa;207222 Wrote: Alternatively start slim.exe with --httpport 9001 and use http://localhost:9001 There are some minor bugs with using port other than 9000 and so use 6.5.2 or better 6.5.3 Thanks bpa, I'm gonna need additional help to follow your suggestion as I don't know what Alternatively start slim.exe with --httpport 9001 and use http://localhost:9001; requires. I clicked on the link above and got: Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage Most likely causes: You are not connected to the Internet. The website is encountering problems. There might be a typing error in the address. Do I need to change the port designation that is used by SS? How do I do it? -- Shep Shep's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11857 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35875 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] dead remote - options?
Thanks. I've just been searching and spotted the JVC thing Also spoke to a bloke at http://www.ripcaster.co.uk/ who may be able to sort me one out in the UK I'm surprised there isn't a UK distributor for the SB (maybe there is but I haven't spotted it yet). Perhaps this will change with Logitech getting involved... -- maddog 2 maddog 2's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2971 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35916 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Last, Best Hope for getting SlimServer to work??
JJZolx;207274 Wrote: If the server isn't starting up, he won't be able to set that on the Server Settings Network page. :-) It would have to be done by editing slimserver.pref in the server folder. Open the file using Wordpad and search for the 9000 and change it. Then try starting up SlimServer again from the Windows Services applet (Start Settings Control Panel Administrative Tools Services, then look for SlimServer). BTW, going to the services applet would be another way to check if the SlimServer service is currently running. If it is, then the Status will show as 'Started'. Probably just easier using bpa's suggestion of trying to start SlimServer from the command-line using the --httpport 9001 option. Once it's running on that port and the web interface is accessible, then the port could be changed permanently to 9001 using the Server Settings Network page. Don't forget that if you run on port 9001 that you'll also have to open this port in any firewalls that are running on the same machine. Until things are going, though, I'd disable any firewalls. OK, first I disabled Windows firewall. Next edited slimserver.pref in the server folder and changed port to 9001 saved. Then started up SlimServer from the Windows Services applet and got the error message: SlimServer service on Local Computer started then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they have no work to do. For what it's worth, when Services applet was opened there was no status indicated for SlimServer (i.e. it was blank). -- Shep Shep's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11857 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35875 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] dead remote - options?
not really the SB is in the kitchen/diner and there aren't any other devices in that room. I'm after a cheap fix, primarily ;o) -- maddog 2 maddog 2's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2971 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35916 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Last, Best Hope for getting SlimServer to work??
Okay, this message is generated in Networking/UDP.pm:
Code:
$udpsock = IO::Socket::INET-new(
Proto = 'udp',
LocalPort = SERVERPORT,
LocalAddr = $main::localClientNetAddr
) or do {
errorMsg(There is already another copy of the SlimServer running on this
machine. ($!)\n);
# XXX - exiting in a deep sub is kinda bad. should propagate
# up. Too bad perl doesn't have real exceptions.
exit 1;
In short, if it can't open the UDP port (3483) it gives this.
Your netstat doesn't show 3483 being used, so something else is
breaking that: it still sounds like you have a firewall turned on.
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Re: [slim] Last, Best Hope for getting SlimServer to work??
Port 9000 problem are a red herring. That error message appears when Slimsserver tries to open port 3483 UDP and find someody else is using it or Slim.exe is not allowed to open it (e.g. firewall). What firewall are you using and has slim.exe been marked as a trusted app. When you re-install slim.exe it is a different slim.exe so sometimes it is good to delete the old entry and make a new one. also check netstat -an for anybody using port 3483. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35875 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Does slimserver need to be some complicated?
Mark Lanctot;207315 Wrote: I'm of the opinion that the developers are too nice and too willing to bend to every user demand. Look at the current brouhaha over compilation albums. What was working for most suddenly is completely unworkable for some. There are vocal demands for can't we choose to have it this way rather than that way? This is how one of those arcane options gets created... Blame the user. I like that, certainly makes my everytday life easy. However, try to thing this way: - If software development process was done the right way, there won't be scenario where the developers would be in possition to be nice or bent over. Try to play nice card with MS developer for example :) - If basic features were set up right from the start, then most of people won't be asking for tweaks because the software would be working reasonably well for most. -- slimkid The sound stage will open up, bass will tighten and the imaging will improve. DVD performance will also increase substantially. slimkid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8881 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35906 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Does slimserver need to be some complicated?
slimkid;207359 Wrote: - If software development process was done the right way, there won't be scenario where the developers would be in possition to be nice or bent over. Try to play nice card with MS developer for example :) Microsoft is, of course, the shining example of top-notch software development, a model for the world to follow. There has never been a bug in a Microsoft product, especially not Windows ME. Even if there were, they would fix it right away. -- Mark Lanctot 'Sean Adams' Response-O-Matic checklist, patent pending!' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=200910postcount=2) Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35906 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Hidden albums
You're right. All sorts of junk. I'm going to try be a bit logical and try find which is/are the offending tag(s). More later... -- richey richey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10836 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35901 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Does slimserver need to be some complicated?
- If basic features were set up right from the start, then most of people won't be asking for tweaks because the software would be working reasonably well for most. Exactly. For most. But the others cry louder ;-). Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox
seanadams;207239 Wrote: Can you explain this more? Is it the soldering of the connector to the PCB that is loose, or is it the mating of the plug into the socket? Is it a workmanship issue? Also where did you buy it? I just tried the wall-wart that came with my first 'Slim Devices' SB3, and it works fine - no intermittent connection. So no problem, then, with the new SB3's PCB / connector soldering etc. On closer inspection, the wall-warts are different. Also, the coaxial power connector on the end of the DC power lead is different - I *think* the internal diameter of the 'tip' (hole) is a little different. It would seem that the plugs are supposed to be the same, but they're not, quite. -- Furry Furry's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11328 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35899 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Last, Best Hope for getting SlimServer to work??
My advice to Shep is find a freind that can help him that knows this stuff. Even for an expert it can take a few long hours to sort it out. Even reinstalling XP is not trvial for a novice. If you have a recovered CD or you may have a recovery image on the laptop itself that is the simplest for the novice. I respect anyone who wants to sort this out and learn though and there are some great tips here. Things I would check is Windows XP Firewall Exceptions (Like to see Dialog showing it is off or Exceptions added). Network Stack (Often Virus Programm will add to the Network Stack to add Port Blocking) Screen Shot of Network Stack. I'd uninstall SlimServer after that Show Screen Shot of all services (to see it's completely removed) Show List of tasks running to show no remnants left Show List of Program Files (Just Folders to be sure it's removed). Show List of Installed Applications might help to. Again this is a fair amount of work to do posting screen shots on this forum. And it still may fail when you install in there is a well hidden firewall still there. -- mswlogo mswlogo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9090 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35875 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Does slimserver need to be some complicated?
Michael Herger;207374 Wrote: That's beside a point. Point is that in professionaly organized development process user can not bend the developer over. Former SlimDevices imho wouldn't be where they are today if they had followed pure old school professional development processes. Does this allow for open source at all? Michael I agree with you that open source concept has brought SD (among other things - don't forget they have superb hardware product :) ) where they are today. However, I don't agree that open source necessarilly needs to allow for slopy, hectic and out of control. Open source means that everybody who wants and knows how, can participate in the development of something they share a common interest about. Nice. Unfortunately, it is in human nature that people want to do 'cool' stuff and tend to skip on 'chores'. Now, since open source has a very vague concept of responsibility (after all you can not fire poor performer and get him bad references, so that he needs to pay off his mortgage delivering pizza), there is a point in the concept where the whole thing start suffering from being the monument to its creators rather than useful piece of code. In my opinion, SD needs to recognise that that moment is just around the corner, and that they need to start streamlining some of their proceses. I think, release mangement and quality control will have to go through serious rework. Here's why. I have never heard that comunity gets to vote about the fixing a bug. Bug is a bug and it needs to be worked out immediately - it's not a matter of democracy (of course, bugs can have thier priority). And then, in order to get a fix for your bug, you need to keep upgrading nighties, even though, there are no guaranties that new bugs have not been introduced while some new cool feature has been implemented in the same build. Think for a moment how would it be if your cell phone service couldn't reach 911, and the customer representative told you something like ... yap, we have a problem with that, but in the meantime we've just implemented that feature where you can watch Britney S. shawing her head - real time on you cell. Oh, and BTW, if enought people complain and vote for it, we'll be reinstating 911 service some time later this month ... So, since you participate in the development, let me ask you a question - is there something like 'regression testing cases' that are executed over the software everytime the nightly release is cutt or at least everytime before the version is made 'stable'? Back to your other post - some people whining about compilation albums trying to push their special needs. Right now, if I choose to have my albums listed by Album Artist, I have tracks written by various composers, like Baroque Favorites, listed by main peformer - 'album Artist', say Glenn Gould. Fine. However, that also means that Beethowen's 5th is listed by Herbert von Karajan, since he is the album artist, even though Beethowen is artist for every track of that album. Am I the only one who doesn't think this is right? Could that have been thought about a little bit more? And before you tell me that I can probably wiggle this out with some creative tagging - yes I can, but how many people from the target market for this product will too? -- slimkid The sound stage will open up, bass will tighten and the imaging will improve. DVD performance will also increase substantially. slimkid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8881 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35906 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Does slimserver need to be some complicated?
Couldn't most of this be solved by having a simple view with advanced tabs you could delve into if desired? I've modified several of the options that you listed as unnecessary, and I would lament having them removed in the name of simplicity. That said, I do acknowledge that there are many advanced settings I do not touch, and it's quite possible that the majority of users don't modify any of the advanced settings. It seems that often software has basic setup panels with advanced panels you can view if desired. This isn't high on my priority list personally, but it could make the product more user friendly to newbies. On 6/6/07, Michael Herger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Bjorn I've thought about this for a while, and I have come to the conclusion that slimserver is one of the most complicated pieces of leisure time software on my computer. In short from a UI perspective I think it is really bad. While I do not agree with this global verdict, I do so with your main point. In fact, your examples show one thing: there are too many options. That's not a UI problem ;-). (BTW: Most of the parameters you list have been asked for by users) One idea could be to collapse many of the performance related options into a single setting for running on normal or low performance hardware. A simplified view on the settings would indeed do some good to the slimserver. E.g. the Various Artists setting should be a translatable string. I'll have a look at this. I'm not gonna ditch my SB if this does not change, but I surely would be even happier with it if it did. Any chance of that? You could give my NoSetup plugin a chance: it will hide all settings pages. As this is all you're complaining about, it might solve your problem :-). -- Michael - http://www.herger.net/SlimCD - your SlimServer on a CD http://www.herger.net/slim - AlbumReview, Biography, MusicInfoSCR ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Does slimserver need to be some complicated?
It seems that often software has basic setup panels with advanced panels you can view if desired. SlimServer has a basic settings page... We'll probably have to redefine what options should be basic. Which settings currently _not_ on that page would you consider candidates for the basic settings page? Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox
A couple more, of the Logitech SB3: +---+ |Filename: IMG_1134.JPG | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2941| +---+ -- Furry Furry's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11328 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35899 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Does slimserver need to be some complicated?
I'll take a look when I get home and see what strikes me as belonging on the basic page. I think the other half of things would be to make simpler versions of some of the advanced settings. The scroll speed settings are a good example. Have a basic version with just a few options High, Medium, Low or something -- you'd pick high if you have a fast computer and reliable network, and it would set a small number of pixels and a higher scrolling speed. And so on. But the advanced tab would still allow you the current fine control. On 6/7/07, Michael Herger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that often software has basic setup panels with advanced panels you can view if desired. SlimServer has a basic settings page... We'll probably have to redefine what options should be basic. Which settings currently _not_ on that page would you consider candidates for the basic settings page? Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Album Artist Browsing - PLEASE
elziko;207360 Wrote: If that is true then there is a 'bug' in the UI since that is not what the UI states. And if you are correct then there is a scanning bug too... I have 'List Albums By Band' checked but Slimserver performs a 'List Albums By Band And By Artist'! This is all starting to make me feel a little dizzy! LOL You are right since we are talking about slightly different things. I'm talking about how album title shows in listings and in SB when 'by artist' option is included in formatting. -- slimkid The sound stage will open up, bass will tighten and the imaging will improve. DVD performance will also increase substantially. slimkid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8881 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35854 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB3 loses connectivity while in standby
Did you recently buy a new cordless phone? Mine does this too sometimes but ONLY if I have just used my cordless phone. Causes some sort of interference I guess. I changed the channel on the router and it seems to help. It could also, I suppose, be a neighbors phone. Other than playing with the router channel, I'm not sure what else you could do if this is the problem. -- gthal gthal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9454 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35020 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Nintendo DS Lite Browser as Interface
So, tell us, how did it work? for $30, I'm thinking of getting the browser but I haven't yet found any good writeups on how well it works with gmail, slimserver, googlemaps, flickr, etc. Those are the sites I would want to use. -- methane methane's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5060 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26107 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox
I hate to say it, but I don't like the look of that at all! I've had a search, but no luck yet - anybody remember the thread where somebody got rid of the logo altogether and painted the surface a smooth matte black? -- nicketynick Wireless SB3, Denon DRA-F101, Mission M31 loudspeakers WinXP SP2 Slimserver, SMC WBR14g router http://www.last.fm/user/nicketynick/ nicketynick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1511 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35899 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox
I have been testing a bunch of different Phihong supplies here. I am having difficulty reproducing the issue, but I don't know if the ones I have on hand are exactly representative of the ones you have. If I deliberately wiggle the plug around quite hard for a few _minutes_ I can sometimes make it reset, but it's not easy to do and I can't identify a particular way of manipulating the connection that causes it. I measured all of the diameters and everything is the same as the Unifive plug to the best I can measure. There is obviously a difference in the shape at the tip of the plug, and the phihong plug is longer, but it's not clear to me how this could affect connectivity. I also cut open a plug and the internal structure / soldering appears quite robust so I don't think it is due to flexing of the molded part of the plug. I noticed that there is a clicking feel as the connector is pushed in the last millimeter or so. Try _not_ pushing the connector quite all the way - i.e. just before you feel that detent. Can you then still make it reset by wiggling it around? If anyone has a particularly flaky connector, we would like to replace it ASAP and get the old one back from you so that we can see what causes it. In the mean time we'll continue to investigate. -- seanadams seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35899 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox
nicketynick wrote: I hate to say it, but I don't like the look of that at all! I've had a search, but no luck yet - anybody remember the thread where somebody got rid of the logo altogether and painted the surface a smooth matte black? Well, I'm glad I got mine with the original SD logo. It doesn't look very exclusive anymore, does it...? I hope it's a coincidence that quality problems are popping up at the same time of the rebranding. Regards, Peter ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] dead remote - options?
Mark Lanctot;207334 Wrote: A JVC DVD remote or a universal with such codes will work, but it doesn't have the brightness button required for firmware upgrades. The firmware upgrades have been automated some versions now. I believe the brightness button is no longer required for that reason. Regards, Matt -- matthijskoopmans matthijskoopmans's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35916 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Band/Orchestra Checkbox
Not that I'm aware of. But you might want to check out the custom browse plug-in that lets you do this sort of thing. -- Gildahl Gildahl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35882 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] All of a sudden, Can't find music files
Anythoughts from anyone? -- scottmd1 scottmd1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=567 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35845 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox
Whilst I would rather have had one with the Slim Devices logo, I do hope that the quality hasn't gone downhill. One thing on Logitech's side is that you now get a two year warranty, I believe it used to be one. Still enjoying it though -- fredbloggs fredbloggs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11807 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35899 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox
nicketynick;207417 Wrote: anybody remember the thread where somebody got rid of the logo altogether and painted the surface a smooth matte black? He actually had it anodized, not painted: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23149highlight=anodized -- Kyle Kyle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2541 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35899 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] All of a sudden, Can't find music files
Did you turn on the d_scan debugger in server settings? It seems something is wrong with the scanning process. -- Pale Blue Ego Pale Blue Ego's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=110 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35845 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox
Im sorry to say - but IMHO that looks absolutely terrible with that logo on there! Really would hate to have that on the rack with all of my Rotel equipment. Glad my recent 2nd SB3 was from the old batch. :) -- Club1820 Club1820's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10999 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35899 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox
Kyle;207437 Wrote: He actually had it anodized, not painted: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23149highlight=anodized Aah, that's the one! Thanks! I'm sure there will be more than one person wanting to do the same.. -- nicketynick Wireless SB3, Denon DRA-F101, Mission M31 loudspeakers WinXP SP2 Slimserver, SMC WBR14g router http://www.last.fm/user/nicketynick/ nicketynick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1511 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35899 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox
IMO, as long as it sounds good, it can say whatever it wants on the front.. On 6/7/07, nicketynick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kyle;207437 Wrote: He actually had it anodized, not painted: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23149highlight=anodized Aah, that's the one! Thanks! I'm sure there will be more than one person wanting to do the same.. -- nicketynick Wireless SB3, Denon DRA-F101, Mission M31 loudspeakers WinXP SP2 Slimserver, SMC WBR14g router http://www.last.fm/user/nicketynick/ nicketynick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1511 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35899 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slimserver causes load on Internet traffic...
Strange, I came home from work today, and my SB3 was playing again. This is the third time this has happened in recent months. Even though my taste in music is excellent;-) ,I'm sure the neighbours don't appreciate it, especially at 3am. My SB2 in the kitchen has never done this. I've firewalled off my network so the Slimserver web-site is inaccessable to the outside world. Both the model/wireless router firewall on my PC all block off port 9000 Anyone got any ideas why this might be happening? -- oreillymj oreillymj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=699 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34922 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slimserver causes load on Internet traffic...
oreillymj;207447 Wrote: Strange, I came home from work today, and my SB3 was playing again. This is the third time this has happened in recent months. Even though my taste in music is excellent;-) ,I'm sure the neighbours don't appreciate it, especially at 3am. My SB2 in the kitchen has never done this. I've firewalled off my network so the Slimserver web-site is inaccessable to the outside world. Both the model/wireless router firewall on my PC all block off port 9000 Anyone got any ideas why this might be happening? At work, do you listen to music from your SlimServer? I find that it's common for the players to get mixed up in the browser and when I think I'm playing something to Softsqueeze on my work PC, it actually plays to one of my players at home. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34922 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] All of a sudden, Can't find music files
scottmd1;206676 Wrote: Hey all, I was over at my folks house this past weekend and they have a problem I could not figure out. They have a SB2 that has been operation flawlessly for a year. I have the SB hooked directly to an old PC of mine that locked up on them while there were out of town for a few months. I rebooted the PC and everything seemed fine. They reported that when you browse artist/genre/album it says empty...and indeed it does. The odd part is, if you browse the music folder, all of the music is there and it works fine! I uninstalled the software, re-installed it and have the same issue. Oh, and when you play something using the browse/music folder way, it will then show up in the artist/album/genere area of browse. I have clear and rescan about 100 times. All of the files are .flac files... Any ideas or suggestions? Have you tried to Nuke the prefs file and then do a rescan? Stop SlimServer and then delete the SlimServer.pref file (c:\program files\slimserver\server\) and delete the cache folder (c:\program files\slimserver\cache). After they are deleted, restart SlimServer and do another Clear Library and Rescan Everything. -- Anoop M. Anoop M.'s Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8996 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35845 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slimserver causes load on Internet traffic...
JJZolx;207450 Wrote: At work, do you listen to music from your SlimServer? I find that it's common for the players to get mixed up in the browser and when I think I'm playing something to Softsqueeze on my work PC, it actually plays to one of my players at home. My gf often starts music in the bedroom (get your mind outta the gutter! geesh) for some reason. My browser never does that, and her bookmark looks right to me, but just launching firefox and choosing the bookmark starts things playing. May be something to do with firefox's should I restore that last session? thingie. I always figure that you barfed on it last time, NO is the correct answer, but she may choose something different. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34922 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox
BTW, just what in the hell -is- that thing in the Logitech logo? -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35899 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slimserver causes load on Internet traffic...
snarlydwarf;207453 Wrote: May be something to do with firefox's should I restore that last session? thingie. Probably just subtle bugs in the javascripting and use of cookies to keep track of the current player. Complicated infinitely by the use of frames for the interface. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34922 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox
seanadams Wrote: If I deliberately wiggle the plug around quite hard for a few _minutes_ I can sometimes make it reset, but it's not easy to do and I can't identify a particular way of manipulating the connection that causes it. On the one I've got, its not really difficult to cause power interruption / reset, by wiggling. seanadams Wrote: I measured all of the diameters and everything is the same as the Unifive plug to the best I can measure. There is obviously a difference in the shape at the tip of the plug, and the phihong plug is longer, but it's not clear to me how this could affect connectivity. Did you measure the inner diameter of the centre hole? I suspect that even a small difference could cause this problem. I think that the plug I've got perhaps doesn't 'grip' as well, it feels slack, as if the centre conductor diameter is too great. Or maybe its the outer conductor... its very difficult to tell. seanadams Wrote: I noticed that there is a clicking feel as the connector is pushed in the last millimeter or so. Try _not_ pushing the connector quite all the way - i.e. just before you feel that detent. Its difficult to tell whether there are one or two detent points, and whether or not power reliably connects at either, but I think most of the time no power connects at the first detent. Actually, I'm a bit wary of repeatedly applying and removing the power, and causing intermittent full connection and disconnection and also bad (high resistance) connection (causes flickering display, noise in output etc.), because of possible damage to the SB. Dave. -- Furry Furry's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11328 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35899 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox
JJZolx;207456 Wrote: BTW, just what in the hell -is- that thing in the Logitech logo? Looks like the sun and the moon? Albeit drawn by a young child ;) -- Ian_F Ian_F's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8308 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35899 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox
fredbloggs;207436 Wrote: I do hope that the quality hasn't gone downhill. To be fair, the SB itself seems fine - it seems its only the 'bought-in' PSU that has a problem (or, more accurately, its plug). Dave. -- Furry Furry's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11328 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35899 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Is AAC support broken after OSX 10.4.9 upgrade?
I don't know what to tell you guys... it's been flawless for me since installing last November. What other info can you give us about your setup? Can you re-confirm the FILE FORMAT CONVERSION SETUP for the server? Check ALL AAC file types (there are two sections of them). Are you streaming at unlimited bandwidth or limiting to something like 320k? -- Eric Seaberg Eric Seaberg - San Diego [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eric Seaberg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7896 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33654 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox
Furry;207462 Wrote: Did you measure the inner diameter of the centre hole? I suspect that even a small difference could cause this problem. The nominal inside diameter is 2.5mm. I didn't have any proper way to measure it so I used a 3/32 drill bit (2.38125 mm) to feel for a difference between the two connectors. It was hard to tell any difference but it felt like there might actually be more play with the Unifive one. The outside I measured with digital calipers and any difference was barely detectable - not more than a couple hundredths of a mm. This is the best I could do with what I have on hand - we'll find out more when our mechanical guys look at it. I don't know why it should be that sensitive - it is after all a pretty simple design that is used in zillions of products. -- seanadams seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35899 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox
Peter;207425 Wrote: nicketynick wrote:[color=blue] snip Well, I'm glad I got mine with the original SD logo. It doesn't look very exclusive anymore, does it...? snip QFT George -- gdpeck gdpeck's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4686 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35899 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Album partially duplicated after scanning
This is a weird one. One of the albums in my collection has 6 tracks. The Slimserver scanner correctly catalogues this album. However, it *also* catalogues a duplicate album, under the same artist, containing only track 6 (ie. the last track - which may or may not be significant, I guess). It's not that track 6 is being put into a separate album: it's also in the proper place. I've done a wipe rescan, but exactly the same thing happened. Funny thing is, I recall this happening a while back to exactly the same album, and a wipe/rescan fixed it that time. I can't see anything strange about the tags on this file. And even if this was a tagging issue, surely it would just cause the track to be split off into a separate album, not be duplicated? Has anyone seen anything like this before? Failing that, is there a way to delete that duplicated album from the database via the web interface? I'm running Slimserver 6.5.1 - 10915, running on Windows 2000 Pro SP4. -- cliveb Transporter - ATC SCM100A cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35929 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] SlimServer on Linux and iTunes problems
SlimServer running on Linux box which is also a SAMBA file server. iTunes runs on a Windows PC with the My Documents residing on the SAMBA file server: My Documents is actually '//sambaservername/username' Locally on the Linux box is is '/home/username' The iTunes directory is '/home/username/My Music/iTunes' I have given open permissions on the 'iTunes' directory, and I have tried configuring SlimServer for ITUNES MUSIC LIBRARY.XML LOCATION to '/home/username/My Music/iTunes/iTunes Music Library.xml', but I get 'Oops - '/home/username/My Music/iTunes/iTunes Music Library.xml' doesn't seem to be a valid file. Try again.' Is there a simple solution? -- jst1 jst1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9160 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35930 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SlimServer on Linux and iTunes problems
'/home/username/My Music/iTunes/iTunes Music Library.xml' doesn't seem to be a valid file. Try again.' What if you prepend the space with a backslash? Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox
Has anyone done a double-blind test to determine the sonic impacts of the new logo? On 6/7/07, gdpeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter;207425 Wrote: nicketynick wrote:[color=blue] snip Well, I'm glad I got mine with the original SD logo. It doesn't look very exclusive anymore, does it...? snip QFT George -- gdpeck gdpeck's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4686 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35899 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox
On 6/7/07, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I'm glad I got mine with the original SD logo. It doesn't look very exclusive anymore, does it...? It's never been exclusive, sorry to burst your bubble. Anyone with a couple hundred dollars can buy one. Ben ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox
While you're measuring connectors, someone better measure the center pin in the SB. The problem might be with the connector in the unit, not the one on the end of the power cable. TD -- tyler_durden tyler_durden's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35899 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox
Mitch Harding;207483 Wrote: Has anyone done a double-blind test to determine the sonic impacts of the new logo? Apparently it makes all your music sound like Dido -- bonze QNAP TS-101 (version 2.0.1 build 0302T) SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 - 11206 - Debian - EN - utf8 2 x wireless SB3 Player Firmware Version: 81 bonze's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6150 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35899 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox
tyler_durden;207487 Wrote: While you're measuring connectors, someone better measure the center pin in the SB. The problem might be with the connector in the unit, not the one on the end of the power cable. TD Furry says it works OK with his old adaptor so I don't think that's the case. Anyway the SB3s connector has not changed, in fact the boards are still being made by the same company. Incidentally, the reason for the change in power supplies is because the Phihong ones are already used by Logitech in other products, they have lower EMI, have interchangeable plugs, and have regulatory approvals for all the myriad of countries where Logitech sells. -- seanadams seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35899 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slimserver causes load on Internet traffic...
I set up internet access to test out streaming to work, but my DSL uplink wasn't fact enough. So it's been disabled. Also I rarely/never leave the Slim web ui open in a browser on the server and it wasn't open today. -- oreillymj oreillymj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=699 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34922 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Does slimserver need to be some complicated?
exile;207245 Wrote: I would love to recommend the slimbox/server to my friends who are looking for a digital music solution but unfortunately I can only recommend this spectacular product to my friends that are either computer professionals or friends that are very computer savvy. Man, you read my mind! When people come over and see the Slimserver on top of my entertainment system they are so intrigued and they all want one. I discourage them as I know I will need to support them as they fumble about. Anyway, the core issue raised of too many options is a good problem to have. It means you have a lot of users giving you good feeback and that you are listenting and implementing needed features. However, when the feature bloat gets too big, you need to step back and streamline. Especially, if you want to tackle the market of non-techies who just want to plug stuff in and have it just work without messing about with a bunch of config settings. -- kbindera kbindera's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11654 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35906 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Does slimserver need to be some complicated?
I guess that since Logitech have bought the company this sort of make it all simple for joe (below?) average is going to be the voice of the masses on these forums soon. Shame. I am all for creating the Basic and Advanced setup pages, then those people who can barely open a word document without needing help will be happy that their Squeezebox/Slimserver combo works with little fuss. Having been a (relatively) long time user, it is interesting to see the switch to this way of thinking. I bought the SB for the exact reason that it wasn't closed source, had regular updates, and was run by enthusiasts. Remember the Netgear MP-101 - they had a server release cycle of about 1 year! (and it still didn't work properly) As for problems setting up and running SB/Slimserver - ever since SS 5.2 it has installed and run without hitch (some of my old problems were purely related to poor tagging). But I guess you were expecting someone with my standpoint to say that! My request - please don't dumb down this excellent product for the mass market; they can buy logitechs Wireless DJ system. However, money always betters quality and I fear we may be seeing the start of the over commercialisation of my favourite music streaming device. No flames intended. Nic -- DrNic DrNic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=92 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35906 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Integrating cover art from Amarok
Man, I can't get this stupid system to work!!! Ok, so updated all my covers, getting files from Google images and such so that I basically had all the correct covers that I could have. Around the same time, I went through and updated some (a lot) of my tags cause I didn't like how they were displayed in SS. The consequence is that now the md5 that Amarok used for its cover image file name no longer match the md5 generated using the new tags (in copycover). copycover and copycoverpl match the image to the directory through md5 generation. So is there a way to force an update of Amaroks cover image md5 filenames? As well, is there any systematic way to rename he md5 filenames to the new tag's md5 generation. Or am I stuck and I have to do a manual dump of the database and start again? Seem silly that upon updating music tags, there's no connection between the md5 and tags anymore. Where does Amarok store the connection between the music and the cover image? In collection.db? And if so, is there a way I can use that to rebuild the connection between md5 and the tags? Thanks! -- verbatone verbatone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3556 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33697 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox
Ian_F;207460 Wrote: Looks like the sun and the moon? Albeit drawn by a young child ;) I'm gutted that my Black SB3 will have this logo on - this is the first picture I have seen of its new branding. Snobbery - maybe, but it just looks shite (plus all my others are originals!) I would even have been happy with Slim Devices with A Logitech Company underneath like the logo on the homepage. One thing though - there better not be any power supply issues... :) Nic PS: when is the website going to reflect the while brand change? -- DrNic DrNic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=92 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35899 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Does slimserver need to be some complicated?
Nic - you seem to be suggesting that the only way to make the product easier to use is to compromise its advanced capabilities. I disagree. -- seanadams seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35906 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox
seanadams;207492 Wrote: Furry says it works OK with his old adaptor so I don't think that's the case. Anyway the SB3s connector has not changed, in fact the boards are still being made by the same company. It wouldn't be the first time a manufacturer started buying parts (the pins) from a different source or updated tooling only to discover the new parts don't match the old... TD -- tyler_durden tyler_durden's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35899 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox
peejay;207506 Wrote: Is it likely that ongoing upgrades to firmware will change the original splash-screen from Slimdevices to Logitech, or is that routine in hardware? That's a firmware feature, and the Logitech logo is already included in the firmware that ships with Slimserver 6.5.2. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverSwitcher SleepFade StatusFirst VolumeLock peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35899 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox
DrNic;207501 Wrote: I'm gutted that my Black SB3 will have this logo on - this is the first picture I have seen of its new branding. Snobbery - maybe, but it just looks shite (plus all my others are originals!) I would even have been happy with Slim Devices with A Logitech Company underneath like the logo on the homepage. One thing though - there better not be any power supply issues... :) Nic PS: when is the website going to reflect the while brand change? Is it likely that ongoing upgrades to firmware will change the original splash-screen from Slimdevices to Logitech, or is that routine in hardware? -- peejay After Silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music - Aldous Huxley. peejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7046 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35899 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New (Logitech) Squeezebox
peterw;207507 Wrote: That's a firmware feature, and the Logitech logo is already included in the firmware that ships with Slimserver 6.5.2. I haven't re-booted the SB3 since the upgrade to Slimserver, or maybe it re-started itself and I wasn't watching. Sigh. -- peejay After Silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music - Aldous Huxley. peejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7046 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35899 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Last, Best Hope for getting SlimServer to work??
In the end it took a Windows reinstall to get SlimServer working again. So, 2 months and 14 hours later I've got music again!! Thanks to all for your patience and assistance. I appreciate your willingness to help a mostly incompetent computer person get SS back on track again. Best regards to all. -- Shep Shep's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11857 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35875 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Last, Best Hope for getting SlimServer to work??
Shep wrote: Thanks to all for your patience and assistance. I appreciate your willingness to help a mostly incompetent computer person get SS back on track again. Best regards to all. Great to hear you are hearing music again. Ready to install Linux? -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Last, Best Hope for getting SlimServer to work??
Awesome at least you got it up. -- mswlogo mswlogo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9090 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35875 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SlimServer on Linux and iTunes problems
Michael Herger;207482 Wrote: '/home/username/My Music/iTunes/iTunes Music Library.xml' doesn't seem to be a valid file. Try again.' What if you prepend the space with a backslash? Michael I tried variants of the following without success: /home/username/My\ Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Music\ Library.xml Is it required to bounce slimserver after enabling the iTunes integration maybe? I have not restarted in in over a month. -- jst1 jst1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9160 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35930 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Transporter not playing...
Thanks to all. I got it working finally. It was a Transporter upgrade problem. I had another PC with an older version of Slimserver that I tried to connect with the The Transporter, it upgrade back to an older version firmware and it worked. I then switched back to my music server with Slimserver 6.5.2 and the Transporter upgraded itself again. It is working fine now. Didn't try the brightness button. -- ccjj ccjj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10331 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35907 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Does slimserver need to be some complicated?
DrNic;207500 Wrote: I guess that since Logitech have bought the company this sort of make it all simple for joe (below?) average is going to be the voice of the masses on these forums soon. Shame. I am all for creating the Basic and Advanced setup pages, then those people who can barely open a word document without needing help will be happy that their Squeezebox/Slimserver combo works with little fuss.I don't think the advanced setup option will be the major problem for this kind of people. Those that barely can open a word document will have a lot bigger problem to actually rip and tag their music correctly. For the average Joe I think this is the most important step to improve. As an example look at iTunes, you just insert the CD and you will get a question and it will automatically rip the CD, download correct tag information from Internet and tag it correctly. After this the new music is placed in the correct place on your disk and is already in your library and ready to use together with iTunes. To do the same with SlimServer you will have to: 1. Download an external tagging application, none is recommended so you will have to find and choose one for your self 2. You will have to choose which file format to choose, again none is officially recommended so you will have to choose among those supported by SlimServer 3. You will have to learn the settings of your external tagging application to make sure the tagging and ripping is done correctly. As an example if you like to use EAC and FLAC, which is one of the combinations recommended on the forum, it isn't setup automatically. You will have to find a tutorial how to setup EAC and FLAC, none is officially recommended. 4. After ripping you will have to make sure your music is stored in a place where SlimServer will find it. In iTunes this is done automatically. 5. You will have to realize that you must actually perform a rescan to get SlimServer to know the new music. After you have successfully gone through all this it is time to start worrying about the basic/advanced settings in SlimServer. This is the time where you will realize that you have tagged your music incorrectly to make it work with the basic settings in SlimServer, so you will have to learn the advanced settings to make it work correctly. Now, I'm not saying that SlimServer should be a tagging software. I'm just saying that average Joe will probably have problem with this tagging and ripping part of the process, especially since there is very little information and recommendations related to this in a place where it can easily be found by average Joe. The information exist for sure, both in the forum and on the wiki, but it isn't that easy to find in case you don't know where to look. Another problem is that there is just to many options in this tagging/ripping part of the process. I personally have no problem with this since I have learned how to do it and have my own process I go through after buying new music, but new users probably doesn't have this. I also think one of the major reasons for the problems we are seeing on the forums, is this non existing tagging/ripping process. The problem is that people tag and rip their music differently and SlimServer needs to support and handle all the different variations of ripping and tagging. I'm not saying that this is bad, because it means that SlimServer is very flexible, but it costs a lot of money for Logitech that could be used for more useful stuff. A suggestion is that Logitech starts to look for some specific tagging/ripping software which could be bundled together with SlimServer. This way the instructions could be a lot more detailed and you could say Do like this instead of saying You can do it this way or you can do it that way or Other applications than the bundled can still be supported, but average Joe will probably choose to use the bundled application and this should get rid of many problems. Now when I have said all this, I also like to say that the SlimServer/SqueezeBox combination has been the biggest improvement of my personal music listening since the time I went from LP to CD player. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and RandomPlayList plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35906 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Run SlimServer Under Program Control?
Are there any completely worked examples where this actually does something? After logging in through telnet, I went through an hour of commend sequences like the following: players 0 2 players 0 2 count%3A1 playerindex%3A0 playerid%3A4f%3Aa8%3Ad9%3Aab%3A91%3A83 ip%3A127.0.0.1%3A51415 name%3A127.0.0.1 model%3Asoftsqueeze displaytype%3Agraphic-320x32 connected%3A1 4f%3Aa8%3Ad9%3Aab%3A91%3A83 signalstrength ? 4f%3Aa8%3Ad9%3Aab%3A91%3A83 signalstrength 0 4f%3Aa8%3Ad9%3Aab%3A91%3A83 title ? 4f%3Aa8%3Ad9%3Aab%3A91%3A83 title DavidGray-TheOneILove 4f%3Aa8%3Ad9%3Aab%3A91%3A83 path ? 4f%3Aa8%3Ad9%3Aab%3A91%3A83 path file%3A%2F%2F%2FVolumes%2FWD%2520USB%25202%2FITunes%2FUnknown%2520Artist%2FUnknown%2520Album%2FDavidGray-TheOneILove.wav 4f%3Aa8%3Ad9%3Aab%3A91%3A83 path /Users/thorngreen/Documents 4f%3Aa8%3Ad9%3Aab%3A91%3A83 path file%3A%2F%2F%2FVolumes%2FWD%2520USB%25202%2FITunes%2FUnknown%2520Artist%2FUnknown%2520Album%2FDavidGray-TheOneILove.wav 4f%3Aa8%3Ad9%3Aab%3A91%3A83 path ? 4f%3Aa8%3Ad9%3Aab%3A91%3A83 path file%3A%2F%2F%2FVolumes%2FWD%2520USB%25202%2FITunes%2FUnknown%2520Artist%2FUnknown%2520Album%2FDavidGray-TheOneILove.wav 4f%3Aa8%3Ad9%3Aab%3A91%3A83 path /Users/thorngreen/Documents/LowString.wav 4f%3Aa8%3Ad9%3Aab%3A91%3A83 path file%3A%2F%2F%2FVolumes%2FWD%2520USB%25202%2FITunes%2FUnknown%2520Artist%2FUnknown%2520Album%2FDavidGray-TheOneILove.wav 4f%3Aa8%3Ad9%3Aab%3A91%3A83 file:///Users/thorngreen/Documents/LowString.wav 4f%3Aa8%3Ad9%3Aab%3A91%3A83 file%3A%2F%2F%2FUsers%2Fthorngreen%2FDocuments%2FLowString.wav 4f%3Aa8%3Ad9%3Aab%3A91%3A83 path ? 4f%3Aa8%3Ad9%3Aab%3A91%3A83 path file%3A%2F%2F%2FVolumes%2FWD%2520USB%25202%2FITunes%2FUnknown%2520Artist%2FUnknown%2520Album%2FDavidGray-TheOneILove.wav I can't get it to set a path. I can't get it to insert to a playlist. I can't get it to add to a playlist. There are absolutely no error messages whatsoever. Instead, it just sits there and tells me that it didn't change anything about the playlist. Any help? -- tggreen tggreen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1948 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35840 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
